yo what's going on guys it's Houston Sports Talk Back another video day and today it has been reported by Shams that Houston Rockets guard AJ Griffin is seriously considering stepping away from basketball this is some tough news for the Rockets um I I remember the day just a couple months ago when the Rockets traded for AJ Griffin um actually uh funny enough this this trade when the Rockets made it it was on my birthday and I was at lunch and I remember getting the alert I don't know if it was by Shams or WJ and um I see the alert that the Rockets trade for AJ Griffin and the thing that made me so happy for the Rockets trading adj Griffin is is how I thought that they got such a steal picking up a guy for only a second round pick I think the rockets in the second round it was a little bit weird because it was the first time ever that you have a set you know the second round uh in the first round of the draft separated and and that's what we saw last year I you know or sorry this year just a couple couple months ago and actually I actually kind of liked it um cuz the second round draft picks kind of have their own moment um and it's separated from the first round draft picks it's it's kind of like with the NFL we see you know the first round one day then the second and the third round the next day and then you know rounds uh four to seven in the next day it's usually a Thursday a Friday and a Saturday now it's a little bit different for the NBA because the NBA doesn't have seven rounds they have a round one and a round two they don't need uh they don't need seven round draft I think it'd probably be crazy if they had a three- round draft yet had Al a seven but so that day when the Rockets made the trade uh it was in it was end of June and when they when they made that trade um they had like the 40th it was like the 41st or the 42nd pick might have been the actually might have actually could have been the 44th it it was something like that was they at 41 to 44 they had that draft pick really if you if you want to be honest Rockets really with all the young Talent they have on their team they had no use of using that pick they have so much young Talent already drafted reach Shepard the day before they had no need of drafting someone uh so why not trade that draft pick to the Atlanta Hawks and get a guy like AJ Griffin who is is another young player but is very is is you know well more experienced as a as a player um compared to whoever you would have drafted in the second round AJ Griffin yes is 21 years old that's young uh even for this Rockets team who is already so young but um you know he he's he would have been way better than drafting some guy just to sit on the bench in the second round um so but I I I was excited because I thought he brought in a lot of uh good things that the Rockets could improve on uh number one starting off with the fact that I thought he brought in uh good three-point shooting which is in his rookie season he had a very very good rookie season with Atlanta Hawks brought in great three-points I thought he would bring in great three-point shooting I thought he would also bring in good defense and good size and good athleticism um now also knew at the time with how deep this Rocket's roster is you're looking at him being a 11th or 12th man in the roster um now thing is like back then in June draft happens the dra happens first then free agency happens so um back then the Rockets had not resigned Aaron holiday yet so he didn't really know if Aaron holiday was coming back to the Rockets as as me as a Rockets fan I I wasn't expecting Aaron holiday come back I don't think a lot I don't think there were many Rockets fans at all that were expecting Aaron holiday to sign back with the team so back then it looked like AJ Griffin would maybe have a little bit more of a role with the Rockets team expecting Aaron holiday to to leave this off season but that didn't happen holiday came back and so I think that really kind of made AJ Griffin 11th or 12th or 13th man on this roster and then then came the summer league and look AJ Griffin wasn't terrible in the summer league but he wasn't great there were definitely some struggles um shooting wise I thought defensively was pretty good he he know he had some nice athleticism had a couple really nice dunks um but I think for a 21-year-old third-year player you know you you would have wanted to see better from a guy like AJ Griffin and I wonder if this summer league struggles um and just the struggles recently like it was a bad sophomore year for him um then he gets traded then he struggles in the summer league I wonder if that has to play into it I you know look we don't know why AJ Griffin is considering stepping away from basketball and possibly retiring but that is definitely a potential reason why I hope everything's okay with AJ Griffin um you know obviously there are other reasons why outside of struggling these last this last year or two uh for him you know there there's definitely uh there's there's definitely more of a reason why he's potentially potentially retiring at the year at the at the age of 21 years old of course there are other reasons why that could be happening but I think that is that is one of the potential reasons um and we'll see what happens um look here's the good thing the Rockets didn't give up too much it was a it was a second round pick it was like the 44th or 45th overall pick so the Rockets are it's not like the Rockets gave up a bunch for him they didn't give up you know they didn't give up a Jon Tate or a jock landal for him it it was just a it was just a second round pick that was in this it was in the basically in the second half of of the second round it was it wasn't even an early second round pick it was it was you know midc round so um it doesn't I don't think this really hurts the team a lot just because the fact that they didn't give up a lot for him but I was really you know I was really excited for what he was going to bring to the team good depth and was going to help with some that the team was looking to improve on obviously that's not going to happen since the fact that he could be potentially retire as he's strongly considering stepping away from basketball but I hope everything's okay with him uh because there are definitely bigger reasons outside of basketball why he could potentially U be considering stepping away from basketball let me know your thoughts in the comment section and peace out go Rockets